Mimi R. Koehl

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Mimi A. R. Koehl
Alma mater Gettysburg College and Duke University
Awards MacArthur Fellows Program
Scientific career
Fields Marine biology
Doctoral advisor Stephen A. Wainwright

Mimi A. R. Koehl is an American marine biologist, biomechanist, and professor at University of California, Berkeley, [1] and head of the Koehl Lab. [2] She was a MacArthur Fellow in 1990.

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Education

M. A. R. Koehl graduated from Gettysburg College magna cum laude, with a B.A. in biology, and Duke University with a Ph.D. in zoology, where she studied with Stephen A. Wainwright. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington, where she studied with Richard R. Strathmann, and at University of York, where she studied with John Currey.

Research

Koehl broadly studies how body structure and physical environment affect an organism's mechanical function in nature, looking across many levels of biological organization. Scientific techniques utilized in Koehl's laboratory range from fluid and solid mechanics to ecological quadrat sampling.

Selected publications

Awards and honors

The Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology Division of Comparative Biomechanics has named the annual best student oral presentation the “Mimi A.R. Koehl and Steven Wainwright Award”

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References

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  2. "Koehl Lab - Lab Research".
  3. "MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
  4. "Rachel Carson Lecture | AGU". www.agu.org. Retrieved 2021-05-08.